Vault Dweller
Commissar, Red Star Studio
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- Jan 7, 2003
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So why do so many people prefer FO1 to FO2 or downright dislike FO2? Because they want to be cool and edgy?The problem with Fallout 1's devoted fan around here is that it's a cult thing to them. They will never ever accept to lower their devotion to it. No matter the analysis, no matter the deep thinks. It's a semi-religious thing to them.
And precise of it that they will never ever accept that Fallout 2 is better than F1, that Fallout 2 build on the foundation that F1 set, build it better, build it well, polish the faults of F1.
That's why the blandness, the scarcity of quests, of things to do in F1, to them, is the tight focus of story. Bitch please~
I couldn't wait to get my hands in Fallout 2. I expected it to be bigger and better (turned out it's bigger, WAY bigger, but not better). For me the magic of Fallout, the magic that set it apart from generic fantasy RPGs was in its setting. Coincidentally, it was the setting that ruined Fallout 2 for me. It was disjointed and disconnected. What's worse is that it shat all over Fallout's much more coherent and focused setting, starting with the gangster town and ending with "it was a social experiment lol!"
:that's wacist:Why LA's chinatown? Because most of the survivors there is Chinamen, and you know that chinamen build chinatowns everywhere they live outside of China, with Kung Fu clubs/dojo in them.
But would it survive after a war that wiped out almost everyone? Would it have the same influence it once had? It's easy to brainwash decadent people looking for meaning and using celebrities to influence them. It's much harder (if not impossible) to do it when the world fell apart and looking for meaning is no longer a top priority.Why Scientologistic town? Because the cult survived.
Yeah, I can see it. A bunch of rednecks gathers 'round and start wondering which of many cultural paradigms they should recreate. A cowboy town with gunslingers and whores? Nah, westerns are dead (even though it would fit the setting much better). A city dedicated to the American Imperialism? It's sorta the Enclave thing, plus they have that president douche and all. How about gangsters? With the hats and the suits and the guns and the toothpicks. Everyone loves gangsters!Why gangster town? Because the gangster culture is steeped in Yankees. IT's a thing call cultural heritage. If they are no longer pressed by survival as in F1, they will build the cultural heavens that their mothers told them in cradle.
What a great closing argument. Where did I hear it before? The Codex refuses to see the greatness of NWN/Oblivion/Mass Effect/etc because to acknowledge it is to acknowledge its greater status than Fallout/Arcanum/Planescape, etc. I mean, there is absolutely no way that people who like X more than Y have a legitimate reason for that or at least different preferences. Fanatics, all of them.But F1 fans will close their eyes and ears about all that. They refuse to see the greatness of F2, because to acknowledge it is to acknowledge its greater status than 1. I frankly give up on convincing fanatics a long time ago. Ranting like this is just a way to check if my old assumtion is still true or not.